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Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Anti-crime groups stand by Zakkout as he praises pastor who claims Jews are persecuted because they are cursed.

For nearly two millennia, Jews have suffered persecution after
persecution at the hands of those who used religion as a vehicle for
hate and even mass murder. Recently, a video clip of anti-Semitic pastor
Steve Anderson – making the claim that Jews have experienced such abuse
because they have somehow been cursed – wound up on the personal
Facebook page of South Florida Muslim leader Sofian Zakkout. According
to Zakkout, who sits on the boards of two anti-crime groups, Anderson’s
declaration “makes a lot of sense.” With statements like this from
Zakkout and worse, why would groups committed to fighting crime continue
to compromise themselves and sabotage their mission by affiliating with
him?

Sofian Abdelaziz Zakkout is the President of the
American Muslim Association of North America (AMANA), a prominent
Islamic organization headquartered in North Miami Beach, Florida.

On January 25th, Zakkout posted onto his personal Facebook page a video clip of a speech made by Steve Anderson,
the pastor of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona.
Anderson is notorious for calling for the killing of gays to end AIDS.
In the clip, Anderson states the following: “And the Jews were scattered
into all nations for literally 2000 years, right? For 1800 sum odd
years. And by the way, everywhere they were scattered, they were
persecuted, hated, treated badly. Why? ‘Cause God’s blessing them? No.
‘Cause they’re under the curse of God for having rejected the Lord Jesus
Christ.”

Blaming Jews for the extreme torment they endured
for so long, which includes a Nazi Holocaust that took the lives of six
million innocent Jews and so many others, is incredibly offensive.
Indeed, statements and beliefs such as Anderson’s have provoked hatred and persecution of Jews.

Towards the end of the clip, which is less than four minutes in
length, Anderson throws the anti-Semitism in people’s faces. He
zealously states, while drawing laughter from his small audience, “You
say, ‘Why are you preaching against the Jews?’ Well, don’t come back
next Wednesday night. Because, next Wednesday night, God’s wrath is on
the Jews even more!”

About the clip, on Facebook, Zakkout
wrote above it, “Makes a lot of sense!” Of course, this is coming from
someone [Zakkout] who regularly refers to Jews as “monkeys and pigs,”
and in February 2016, circulated on social media a report claiming that “the Holocaust was faked.”
The report calls the Holocaust “the biggest lie ever foisted upon
humanity” and was produced by a media outlet which describes Hitler as
“the greatest leader in modern Western history.”

Both Anderson
and Zakkout have been denounced by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) for
their propagation of anti-Semitism. In July 2010, the ADL condemned
Zakkout and his group AMANA for featuring an anti-Jewish video produced
by former KKK leader and white supremacist David Duke on the AMANA
website. The ADL described the video as “venomous.” In October 2015, Zakkout praised Duke, as “David Duke, a man to believe in!”

Besides posting videos from Steve Anderson and David Duke on his
Facebook page, Zakkout also, in July 2017, posted a four minute clip
from a speech made by Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Louis Farrakhan.
During the clip, Farrakhan repeatedly labels the Jewish people “Satan.”
He states, “Really, they’re not Jews. No, that’s Satan. You should
learn to call them by their real name, ‘Satan.’ You’re coming face to
face with Satan, the Arch Deceiver, the enemy of God, and the enemy of
the righteous.”

Zakkout is also an ardent supporter of the
terrorist organization Hamas, if not a member himself. In July 2014, he
organized a pro-Hamas rally held outside the Israeli Consulate in
downtown Miami. Rally goers repeatedly shouted, “We are Hamas” and
“Let’s go Hamas.” After the rally, Zakkout wrote the following in
Arabic, above photos from the event: “Thank God, every day we conquer
the American Jews like our conquests over the Jews of Israel!” He signed
it “Br. Sofian Zakkout.” The next month, Zakkout declared in Arabic, "Hamas is in my heart and on my head."

All of the above testifies to hatred and intolerance, but it is even more disturbing given the fact that Zakkout sits on the boards of two anti-crime organizations:
Crime Stoppers of Miami-Dade County and Citizens’ Crime Watch of
Miami-Dade County. Serving alongside Zakkout on these boards are local
politicians and law enforcement officials. One would think that they
would find Zakkout’s actions and bigotry unacceptable, as well, yet
Zakkout continues to serve unchallenged.

If the board members
of Crime Stoppers and Citizens’ Crime Watch do not wish to be associated
with anti-Semitism or white supremacism or Hamas or Holocaust denial or
Steve Anderson or David Duke or Louis Farrakhan, then they must cut
ties with Sofian Zakkout.

The time is long overdue that these
groups maintain their credibility and remain true to their stated
missions of protecting and safeguarding the American public. Sofian
Zakkout’s bigoted and radical agenda is antithetical to this and is a
documented threat to national security. His presence on the boards of
both organizations constitutes an obscene travesty. Once and for all,
these groups need to divorce themselves from Zakkout and repudiate what
he stands for.

Joe Kaufman was the 2016 Republican nominee for United States House of
Representatives in Florida’s 23rd Congressional District. He is an
expert in the fields of counter-terrorism, foreign affairs and energy
independence for America. He has been featured on all major cable
networks, including Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS and C-SPAN. Joe has
been instrumental in getting terrorist charities shut down and
terror-related individuals put behind bars. Exactly one month prior to
the September 11 attacks, he predicted the attacks by stating in an
article that “the 1993 World Trade Center bombing was no aberration” and
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